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CLENT HILLS BRECCIA. 
Clent and Abberley Breccias did not come from the same source is 
at once apparent. 
On the other hand, one visit to Envilie Sheep Walks Breccia 
resulted in eight fossils being found on the surface. They are all 
in fragments of Llandovery Sandstone. No doubt, some can be 
found in quarries. A further examination of the Envilie district 
may, therefore, show that the Clent and Envilie Breccias are com¬ 
posed of the same aggregation of rocks. We must first, however, 
before arriving at this conclusion, examine Envilie more thoroughly. 
I will now revert to the Clent Hills. The theories contained in 
the literature on the subject are :— 
(1) Dr. Buckland : That all the rocks were derived from the 
Lickev. Objection has, however, been taken to this—that they 
cannot have been derived from there, as the ridge owes its upheaval 
to faults of more recent date than the Permian. 
(2) Professor Ramsay’s : That all the Breccias in Worcester¬ 
shire and Staffordshire were deposited at the same time in water 
which covered the area where the Breccia is found, and extended 
to the foot of the Longmynd, and that the agency was ice. That 
the Longmynd was then at a much greater relative height than it 
is now, and down the valleys, glaciers descended into the sea, broke 
off as icebergs, and floated away to the east and south-east, and 
melting, deposited their freight at the bottom of the sea. I cannot 
accept this theory for these reasons only, independently of others, 
namely, that, as I have shown you, Llandovery is fairly abundant 
on Clent, but apparently cannot be found at Abberley ; and Ludlow 
Limestone and shale and Old Red Sandstone are abundant at 
Abberley, but cannot be found at Clent, anywhere. This is 
entirely inconsistent with the theory which involves fairly equal 
distribution of the different rocks over the whole area. Also, that 
after three years’ investigation of Clent only three scratched rocks 
have been found, and these were on the surface, and so unreliable. 
That the Clent rocks are either not all or but very slightly rounded, 
and many of the fossiliferous pieces which are, of course, the softest 
rock, and so most subject to attrition, are so square and with such 
straight cut sides that one might imagine they had only been 
detached from the parent rock yesterday. 
February, 1893. 
